http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/b...d-fox-news-a-symbiotic-relationship.html?_r=0
If you read the article, you will understand that occasional lies and fabrications are actually good for FOX ratings. The piece clearly shows that FOX is not a news station, held to the same standards as NBC, CBS, or ABC....not even CNN. FOX is an entertainment station that can count on good rating by challenging the MSM, who are bound by journalistic ethics while striving for the facts.
FOX is bound by nothing, other than the need for better rating. The lying Bill story is what they like. Their success can be attributed to the same factors that make a soccer mom pick up an Enquirer or Starr or other media item that relies on sensationalism
FOX needs to bring their viewers to their feet and keep them up in arms, positive that the MSM media cannot be trusted. Bill is helping FOX ratings every time he fabricates or goes ballistic on air. Bill is going nowhere and FOX will not investigate him because they have no ethics to apply. Simple as that....
If you read the article, you will understand that occasional lies and fabrications are actually good for FOX ratings. The piece clearly shows that FOX is not a news station, held to the same standards as NBC, CBS, or ABC....not even CNN. FOX is an entertainment station that can count on good rating by challenging the MSM, who are bound by journalistic ethics while striving for the facts.
FOX is bound by nothing, other than the need for better rating. The lying Bill story is what they like. Their success can be attributed to the same factors that make a soccer mom pick up an Enquirer or Starr or other media item that relies on sensationalism
FOX needs to bring their viewers to their feet and keep them up in arms, positive that the MSM media cannot be trusted. Bill is helping FOX ratings every time he fabricates or goes ballistic on air. Bill is going nowhere and FOX will not investigate him because they have no ethics to apply. Simple as that....